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Police in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have detained 17 Christians after they gathered for memorial prayers for the victims of the massacre that ended the 1989 student-led protests on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu have tried a Nanjing-based activist after he staged a public memorial ceremony for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre on the 28th anniversary last June 4.